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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Byron Nelson Ludwig.

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BYRON NELSON LUDWIG

Private First Class · U.S. Army

February 20, 1944 – August 15, 1966

Service record

Byron Nelson Ludwig, of Toledo, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 15, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10E · Line 9

Position of Panel 10E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
February 20, 1944
Home of record
Toledo, Ohio (Lucas County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 15, 1966
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date August 15, 1966. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 98 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 10E, Line 9

Same unit, same day

From Toledo

All 118 names from Toledo →

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.